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International Women’s Day 8 March 2021. Women In Leadership

3rd March, 2021

International Women’s Day 8 March 2021 Women In Leadership: Achieving An Equal Future In A COVID 19 World COVID 19 has disproportionately affected women and girls, particularly those who face multiple inequalities due to income, race, geographic location, age, disability, migration, and health status.   …

IEU Speaks – Letter to Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash – re VET and ELICOS

26th February, 2021

Chris Watt, Federal Secretary of the IEUA has written to Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, on behalf of IEU members employed in the private post-secondary education sector. You can download a PDF version to read here. The …

The rollout of the COVID jab – IEU(SA) speaks to ABC Radio Adelaide

23rd February, 2021

Listen to IEU(SA) Secretary Glen Seidel – with Sonya Feldhoff on Afternoons, ABC Radio Adelaide – discuss the rolling out of COVID jabs. This edited podcast also features Dr Chris Moy, President of the SA Branch of the Australian Medical Association and Vice President of the Australian Medical …

IEUA Speaks on 2020 International Human Rights Day

8th December, 2020

(Download this release in PDF format – click here) Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. […] Unless these rights have …

World Refugee Day. 20 June 2020

19th June, 2020

“Refugees are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children, with the same hopes and ambitions as us—except that a twist of fate has bound their lives to a global refugee crisis on an unprecedented scale.” Khaled Hosseini 20 June 2020 is World Refugee Day On this day, …

Adelaide preschool owner who ‘exploited’ two underpaid workers fined four times money owed

26th May, 2020

BIG WIN FOR THE IEU… The operator of two Adelaide preschools has been fined $23,000 after she was found to have exploited workers for financial and business gain. Key points: Kerry Black underpaid two workers at her Adelaide preschool A tribunal has penalised her four …

IEU Member Advice #1 – COVID-19

13th March, 2020

  13 March 2020 As COVID-19 has reached the pandemic stage and is likely to spread more widely in Australia it raises questions for workers regarding their rights and entitlements under scenarios ranging from work closure to forced quarantine. Employers will need to balance competing …

IEU Speaks – IWD. Campaigning for safer workplaces.

5th March, 2020

CAMPAIGNING FOR A SAFER WORKPLACES On International Women’s Day, IEU members call out Workplace Gendered Violence (Download PDF version of this article here) What is Workplace Gendered Violence? Workplace gendered violence is any behaviour, action, system or structure in a workplace that causes physical, sexual, …

IEU Speaks – IWD. Generation Equality.

5th March, 2020

  INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY GENERATION EQUALITY On International Women’s Day, IEU members are called to challenge stereotypes, fight bias, and campaign for Gender Equality. (Download this article in PDF format here) International Women’s Day is time to reflect on progress, to call for change and …

What to do about coronavirus

29th January, 2020

Schools around Australia have reacted differently to students who have recently been to China. Naturally, schools will try to balance the protection of the whole school community with the rights of students to receive an education. The IEU cannot provide any medical advice but we …